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Dear Coalition Friend:

We know that your time is very important so we would not want to ask too much of you. However, this Wednesday brings a critical event that desperately needs your full support. The Joint Landowner's Coalition of New York is hosting a rally in Albany on Wednesday, June 9th. Buses will be leaving from various locations throughout the Southerntier and upstate NY. If we do not have a tremendous showing of support for this rally, this very well may be the end of our gas drilling prospects for many years to come.

By John Stith/The Post-Standard

April 23, 2010, 5:11PM

Syracuse, NY -- State environmental officials today made it more difficult to use horizontal hydraulic fracturing — hydrofracking — to drill for natural gas in the Skaneateles Lake and Catskills watersheds.

Tom Doggett (REUTERS)
WASHINGTON
Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:34am EST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. economy will lose $2.4 trillion over the next two decades if the federal government does not allow oil and natural gas drilling in restricted onshore lands and in offshore areas previously closed to energy companies, according to a new study released on Monday.

Read the rest here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61B2R520100216

Important CNY Landowner’s Coalition Meetings
April 10th, 2010
Unadilla Valley Central School
9:30am & 1:30pm

The Central New York Landowner’s Coalition is hosting very important meetings at the Unadilla Valley Central School at 4238 State Highway 8 New Berlin, NY 13411 on Saturday, April 10th, 2010. All coalition members are strongly urged to attend, however, the meetings are open to all who have interest.

By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Jan. 27 -- Gastem Inc., Montreal, found gas in one sand and two shales with good thickness at its first well in a planned drilling program on 35,000 acres in western New York.

The Ross-1 vertical well in Otsego County yielded gas from Ordovician Utica shale, Silurian Oneida sand, and Devonian Marcellus shale, the company said. TD is 4,950 ft. The three zones “will be the subject of extensive programs in the coming months,” the company said.

You can download the new map file here:
http://www.cnylandcoalition.org/downloads/SmithIntCharMaps.pdf

Fortuna Energy is letting go of contracts to the Marcellus Shale in Tioga County, raising a new twist to the natural gas prospecting that reached fever pitch last spring. Read more hereh: http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090402/NEWS01/904020443/1006/

VERY IMPORTANT - these documents will be used for future regulation of the gas industry. They are located here.

Members of the Kirkwood Gas Coalition have voted in favor of a proposal that could give them $48 million over the next eight years.\

NOTE THIS WAS NOT A DONE DEAL WITH A GAS COMPANY BUT A FORMULATION OF THE DEAL TO BE PRESENTED TO GAS COMPANIES.

For the full story: http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20090111/NEWS01/901110363/1006/

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